Sea-Call
Your eyes are green grottos
of coral
and your feet are clumsy
watersilk is gone and the rivers
don't feel the same as salt
your eyes are still wet
your hands are tired of sunshine
Have you forgotten coolness
darkness, silverflash fishsparkle
the pebbles under your wet skin
and the bark-grunts of happy seals ?
Selkie-girl, where is your sealskin now ?
Jhael 1993